Restaurant Meals Could Be Wrecking Your DietBeth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
The average restaurant meal serves up half the calories you need in a day.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
While eating too much salt can be dangerous, taking in too little is perhaps even riskier. The IOM and AHA face off.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
TMAO, a substance found in abundance in the guts of meat eaters, has artery-clogging effects. But is meat the problem?
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
African Americans suffer disproportionately from hypertension. A lack of vitamin D may the cause.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Americans are eating less fast food. You can guess what group eats the most.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
It's not just coffee that protecta against stroke. Green tea lowers the risk by 20% or more.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
A high salt diet may trigger autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Read more > Joel Schilling, M.D., Ph.D.
Heart failure is one of the most common and life-threatening conditions in the U.S. What to do when things go from bad to worse.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Olive oil, nuts, a glass of wine, what's not to love about the Mediterranean diet? It prevents heart attacks, too.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
Cutting our salt intake by just a few grains a day would have an enormous impact on our collective health.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Many brain cells that have been damaged by stroke are not dead. Hyperbaric treatment helps them regenerate even years later.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
Complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies may provide relief for women transitioning to menopause. HRT helps, too.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
You can reduce plaque build-up in arteries just by eating the flavonoids found in deeply red- and blue-colored berries and vegetables.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
What happens when physicians, nutritionists, dietitians, and other professionals work together to curb obesity? Progress.
Read more >Neil Wagner
To eat omega-3s or not, that is the question.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Exposure to certain scents can lower heart rate and BP. Just don't inhale them for too long.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Lycopene, found in tomatoes, can help prevent strokes.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
Can taking Omega-3 fatty acids through foods or supplements help prevent heart disease? A new study casts doubt.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Putting an insole in the shoe of a stroke patient on the unaffected side can improve balance and strength almost immediately.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Combining four medications into one pill to reduce heart disease could work wonders for the aging...
Read more >Esther Entin, M.D.
Hypertension in children has doubled in the past ten years. Obesity is a major factor.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Rutin, a flavonoid, helps block clot formation. It may provide a lower-risk alternative to Warfarin.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Calcium supplements cause a spike in blood calcium levels which may deposit too much of the mineral in the body at one time.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
A little dark chocolate every day may actually offer some heart benefits for those with metabolic syndrome.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Eating and drinking low-fat dairy products reduced the risk of stroke in a large study...
Read more >Neil Wagner
Air pollution can trigger heart attacks and strokes.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Eating red meat, particularly processed meats like bacon and hot dogs, is associated with a greater risk of early death.
Read more >Esther Entin, M.D.
Being deficient in magnesium raises your risk of stroke. It's better to eat foods with this mineral than take a supplement.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
A medium orange contains approximately 60 calories while a cup of orange juice contains twice that amount.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
A new formula for figuring heart and stroke risk is sobering, but luckily many of the risk factors are largely within our control.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Drugs to reduce the brain's immense energy needs may serve to help preserve it when its blood supply
Read more >Neil Wagner
Brain stents are not nearly as effective as aggressively treating stroke patients' high blood pressure and cholesterol.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Alpha-B-crystallin limits damage by soaking up the toxic and inflammatory compounds that...
Read more >Neil Wagner
Proof that public health must be seen in a broader light than it currently is...
Read more >Neil Wagner
Yoga can be useful to stroke patients seeking to regain their balance and confidence.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Olive oil's heart protective benefits are well known, and using it for cooking may also help prevent strokes.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Working at home to recover from a stroke can be as effective as rehabilitation in a special center.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
A diet rich in potassium can reduce the risk of stroke, but some need to be careful.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Men tend not to go to the doctor, leaving high blood pressure and cancer untreated until they become more serious.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Eating whole grains can reduce systolic blood pressure.
Read more >Neil Wagner
A study found that low daily doses of aspirin greatly reduced the risk of several types of cancer.
Read more >Neil Wagner
CT scans are a boon to diagnosis, but some may expose patients to way too much radiation.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Taking blood pressure meds before you go to sleep at night boosts their effectiveness by working with your body's natural rhythms.
Read more >Neil Wagner
A small study has found that stroke patients recover better when they receive magnetic pulses...
Read more >Neil Wagner
Opening clogged arteries with angioplasty is useful for relieving angina, but it doesn't prevent heart attacks.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Renin, an enzyme, may offer a way to figure out which blood pressure meds a patient may best respond
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Relax. Being angry may cause your arteries to thicken and increase your risk for heart attack and stroke.
Read more >Neil Wagner
People with hearts that pump most effectively tend to have larger brains. Coincidence? Not likely.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Doctors testing a woman's cholesterol may want to ask when her last period was, since estrogen level
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Calcium supplements may strengthen the bones, but they may also raise the risk of heart attack...
Read more >Neil Wagner
Researchers relieved blocked arteries in rats by stroking a whisker. Can this be applied to humans?
Read more >Neil Wagner
People who drank a glass of beet juice had a maximum drop of 10.4 points systolic blood pressure.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Most Americans are getting too much salt, and most of it comes from processed foods.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Early studies using a tiny vacuum to remove blood clots in the brain show promise...
Read more >Neil Wagner
Drink one less serving of sugar-sweetened beverages (such as sweet tea, lemonade or soda) and you can lower your blood pressure.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Patients with implanted heart devices like pacemakers or defibrillators may want to establish a directive for their deactivation.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Eating diets high in bran may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Elderly kidney patients should not be given ESAs, or erythropoesis-stimulating agents. The drugs pose a risk of stroke and clots.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
A TIA or transient ischemic attack is a mini-stroke, but with no lasting damage. It is often a warning sign and should be treated.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Increasing your intake of vitamin B6 and folate may reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Eating the equivalent of a square of chocolate every day can reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke
Read more >Alice G. Walton
High blood pressure is connected to an increase in the number of white matter brain lesions connected to mental decline.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Coffee appears to reduce the risk of stroke in women.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Healthy 19-50 year olds should consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of salt a day, about one teaspoon.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors that increases the chance of contracting heart disease, diabetes or stroke.
Read more >Neil Wagner
If a clot or part of it dislodges and travels to the lung and blocks an artery, a pulmonary embolism can occur.
Read more >Neil Wagner
It is very simple: increased salt consumption increases your risk of hypertension (high blood pressure).
Read more >Tom Gilbert
More than 700,000 Americans have a stroke each year, many never fully recover.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
According to fairy tales, music has the power to tame savage beasts.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
Mediterranean countries have a lower rate of stroke compared to the US, which may reflect the influence of the "Mediterranean diet."
Read more >Tom Gilbert
Middle-aged women have a far greater risk of stroke than do men.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
What is the major cause of heat stroke? Ignorance — of our own bodies, of the weather and of what one can do to the other.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
Routine screenings can make a big difference in the early detection of aneurysms.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
Treating hypertension early may actually save healthcare dollars by avoiding expensive procedures later.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
There is an obesity paradox in cardiovascular health. Heavier people tend to survive health crises better, but are more at risk.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
Adiponectin stops white blood cells from the immune system from attaching to blood vessel walls.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
The eye is part of the brain and the same blood vessels feed both organs.
Read more >Robert M. Russell, M.D. and Paolo M. Suter, M.D.
Some people are "salt sensitive." If they increase their salt, they increase their blood pressure.
Read more >Morgan Campbell, M.D.
Aspirin, taken every day (81-325 mg dose), can help prevent a stroke.
Read more >Eli A. Friedman, M.D.
If your doctor says your blood pressure is "a little high," you should betreated with anti-hypertensive drugs.
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